We'll miss having you drop in here, Kat, but good luck with the magical thinking. I've been looking into some of this myself; starting with diet, moving into meditation.
Several times now I've heard Tim Page interviewed about his book Parallel Play: Life as an Outsider. Terry Gross interviewed him for today's program. He was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age 45, at the same time his son was diagnosed. Every time he describes the things that set him on edge and made things difficult (or easy) I keep thinking "I know what he means." I wonder if it's worth pursuing. He likened parts of it to being an absentminded professor.
Susan, I think for my freezer that wouldn't work, I'd just have a towel frozen to the bottom of it. This has to do with something that isn't defrosting the drain properly. Towels do figure in the next defrost, though. Rather than empty the fridge I'll block the two cooling vents (the fridge is cool because of the vents from the freezer) stick all of the ice cube trays in there to keep it cool and use the hair dryer to defrost the area inside the back where something has been freezing up. The last time I defrosted it cleared up the problem for a couple of months.